Dr Dušan Borić
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76597
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74929
Extension:76597
Location:4.08
Research Interests
My research interests are in European and Near Eastern Prehistory and archaeological theory. I have studied in particular the culture change from foraging to farming in the Balkans, writing about the issues of social memory and cultural identities in the past.
More recently I have written about changes in early prehistory of the Old World from an explicit body-focused perspective.
In particular my research have focused on the prehistoric record of the Danube Gorges region of north-east Serbia where I researched the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac and the Palaeolithic deposits of Tabula Traiana Cave. Other projects I am involved in focus on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene forger land-use strategies in Montenegro, stone raw material provenance studies in the central and eastern Balkans and household craft specialization in the Neolithic Vinča culture of southeast Europe.
Research Projects
- Prehistory of NE Serbia: Survey and excavations (collaborative project with the Department of Archaeology, Belgrade University)
- Household craft specialization and emergence of metallurgy in the Neolithic Vinča culture of southeast Europe – Vinča Archaeology and Metallurgy Project (VAMP) group
- Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Foragers of Montenegro
- Dating the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Alps
- Prehistoric flint sourcing in NW Bulgaria and NE Serbia: Field survey and laboratory analyses
- Radiocarbon dating of Early and Middle Copper Age in the eastern Carpathian Basin
- Radiocarbon dating of metallurgical innovations in the Vinča culture of the Balkans
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Ethnoarchaeology - 20 credits (HS2426)
Postgraduate
- Writing Archaeology - 10 credits (HST300)
- Themes in the Neolithic - 20 credits (HST405)